Hilarious coverage of Los Angeles social events (5)
I believe the answer is:
galas
'social events' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both acts as well as being plural nouns.
Perhaps they are linked in a way I don't understand?
'hilarious coverage of los angeles' is the wordplay.
'hilarious' becomes 'gas' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'coverage of' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'los angeles' becomes 'LA' (abbreviation).
'gas' enclosing 'la' is 'GALAS'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Another definition for galas that I've seen is " Bashes".)